Tales of the Outer the Other the Damned and the Doomed

"Leave safety at the door... shaped by this weatherman of a wounded humanity, Nicolay's punch is grim and honest, his horizons vast, alluring, and keenly-attuned to what unfurls in our darkest dreams. This explorer's debut is a collection of strange... living inside some wonderful reading."--Joseph S. Pulver Sr.

"With extraordinary precision and a profound understanding of the power of language, Scott Nicolay examines the nuances of modern discontent. In his fiction you will find no refuge from the grime and dust, marrow and sinew of human experience. His characters are damaged by their efforts in a world that thrives on brutality and gree. Many of these characters can't be redeemed through heroism. Yet the grapple, tooth and claw, with the truly horrific aspects of life: guilt, regret, and despair. And in their struggle we glimpse the last hope for ourselves, to climb over the rubble of so-called civilization and make our way toward compassion, with all odds against us."-- S.P. Mikowski

Over half a century back, a child was born amidst the toxic waste dumps and devil haunted swamps of New Jersey... 26 years later that child packed all he could fit in a '72 Dodge Challenger and lit out for the high desert of northwest New Mexico and the Navajo Nation, where if the dogs bark at night it is only the skinwalkers.. along the way he had three children and held jobs including dishwasher, restaurant and hotel cook, factory worker, camera store clerk, topless bar DJ, security guard, teacher, ad sheepherder... as a teacher he and his students cofounded the New Mexico Poetry Slam... as a caver and archaeologist he studied and explored the cave and lava tubes of Belize, Easter Island, and the U.S. Southwest... several years ago he tailed Jack Spicer's Martian to the undertain boundary between our reality and the cobbly worlds... now he spends his nights peering through a grimy window there and reportin what he sees. The tales in this book comprise those reports.